“If we were to vote on our favorite color, you would announce which color is ‘best.'”
Letter: GMO article was filled with misinformation
“Your newspaper poses as an open-minded, environmentally conscious, liberal organization — but this article clearly shows where your loyalties lie.”
Watchers in the woods
Asheville, NC
Letter: Asheville could be home of national vegan movement
“Wouldn’t that be just the perfect new moniker of Asheville? Asheville, the kind, vegan home of preserving our Earth and humanity.”
Letter: Creative thinking needed for city’s problems
“With the status quo untouched, the undeserving are to be driven out, and property speculators large and small allowed to run riot before moving on to their next victim, leaving our city a smoldering wreck in their rear-view mirrors.”
Letter: Dedication, hard work have fueled co-op for 45 years
“There are exciting things happening at our community-owned store. Visions are becoming realities, and the co-op is about to embark on a major effort that will allow it to continue to serve the community, but in even better and more creative ways.”
Letter: Talk offers info on health care for all
“If you want to learn about how we can cut administrative costs, lower drug prices [and] go to any doctor in the country, then come to the in-depth talk at A-B Tech [Ferguson Auditorium] on June 27 sponsored by Indivisible AVL. “
Here’s mud up to your eyes
Asheville, NC
Letter: Benefit helped Youth Ultimate teams
“Thanks for all of the support for Youth Ultimate! Look for our Ultimate Frisbee Summer Camp the week of Aug. 7!”
Frozen assets
Asheville, NC
Live small, ride free: adventures in sustainability
“With each day that passed, however, we gained confidence and learned more about our solar equipment. Once we knew how much capacity our solar panels and batteries had, we removed the only propane appliance left in the Toaster — the stove/oven combo — and our home became 100 percent fossil-fuel-free!”
Letter: Please vote crazy over evil
“So when the choice is between crazy and evil, which is the best choice I have ever seen on a ballot without my own name on it, voting for the nutcase is the easy choice.”
Letter: Bridging pre-existing conditions
“My pre-existing condition is the infinite distance between people, between my brain and my will, between my animal and my spiritual.”
WNC writers vie for Southern Book Prizes
“Robert Morgan’s latest novel, recently out in paperback, is set in pre-Civil War times. It follows a crafty teenage runaway slave on a northward journey toward freedom. From the Carolina mountains all the way to Ithaca, N.Y., he finds dangers, adventures and comedy.”
Letter: How to become your own health care advocate
“I strongly encourage you to become knowledgeable about your health so that you are in a position to participate in the decision-making process. Knowledge allows one to self-advocate.”
Insecure understanding
Asheville, NC
Planning time
Asheville, NC
Letter: Expert on national security and climate risk comes to Asheville
“So, on June 9, Adm. Titley will be discussing a somewhat different approach to understanding climate risks — i.e., from the national security perspective — and it’s an approach that offers common ground for all sides of the climate debates.”
Letter: Consider Haiti nonprofit opened eyes to needs beyond Asheville
“In the mountain villages where we hold pediatric clinics, we are the only health care these children receive each year. There is no hospital or doctor’s office; there is no one who routinely comes up to check on these children. It is us.”
The strong arm of the law
Economic engine trouble
Asheville, NC